Ukrainian parliament member Vadym Yevchenko said a very interesting thing during an interview with Ukrainian television, stating that indeed many foreign mercenaries have joined the Ukrainian army, but many of them have defected to the Russian army during the war, because the Russian army offers higher pay and better conditions. Yevchenko refuted the statement by Ukraine's new defense minister Shmyhal about recruiting a large number of foreign mercenaries, saying that Ukraine lacks the funds to support this project, as there is no foreign heavy-weight big donor putting money into it.
The number of foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian army reached more than 20,000 at its peak, and currently it is believed that several thousand foreign mercenaries are still on the front lines in Ukraine. The reason for the decline in the number of foreign mercenaries in the Ukrainian army is because of the high casualty rate. According to the Kyiv Independent, foreign mercenaries are usually deployed to high-risk tasks on the front line, and the death rate of foreign mercenaries is approximately 2-3 times the average level of the Ukrainian army.
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